Digital and interactive technologies are becoming increasingly embedded in everyday lives of people around the world. Application of technologies such as real-time, context-aware, and interactive technologies; augmented and immersive realities;, social media; and location-based services has been particularly evident in urban environments where technological and sociocultural infrastructures enable easier deployment and adoption as compared to non-urban areas. There has been growing consumer demand for new forms of experiences and services enabled through these emerging technologies. We call this ambient media, as the media is embedded in the natural human living environment. This workshop focuses on ambient media services, applications, and technologies that promote people?s engagement in creating and re-creating liveliness in urban environments, particularly through arts, culture, and gastronomic experiences.

The workshop takes a multidisciplinary and future oriented approach, and welcomes participants from diverse disciplinary domains for open discussions about technological, sociocultural, and content-related aspects of ambient media services that support people?s engagement in (re)creating their urban environments into a livelier place through art, cultural, and gastronomic experiences.

Within this context, we welcome submissions relating to (but not limited to) the following:? case-studies (successful, and especially unsuccessful ones);? speculative and innovative concepts or design;? demonstrations of services and applications;? user-experience studies and evaluations;? artistic installations and contents;? social and/or economic studies, businesses models, and marketing ? technological novelties, evaluations, and solutions;

PUBLICATIONS? Submit your contribution by using the ICME template (a description can be found [--> http://www.icme2012.org/PaperSubmission_index.php]) with the...? submission system that can be found [--> https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICMEWS2012/]. ? The submission system for workshops and ICME 2012 paper submissions are identical, thus please follow the instruction on the website carefully.? Selected publications will be published in an edited book after the workshop!

===========================================International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization (CO 2012)17-19 September 2012, University of Oxford, UKhttp://www.sbs.oxford.edu/co2012===========================================

CALL FOR PAPERS #2

CO 2012 is an International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization. It is the next in a series of biennial conferences. The last few conferences were held in Malaga (2010), Warwick (2008), Porto (2006), Lancaster (2004), Paris (2002), Greenwich (2000), Brussels (1998), and London (1996). CO 2012 is hosted by the University of Oxford.

The program topics will be on any subject related to theory and applications of combinatorial optimization, which includes but not limited to:

Contributed papers are cordially invited. Please submit your contribution on-line via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=co2012. Your submission should be a one-page (A4) abstract, which includes a list of key words and is in the PDF format.

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CHALMERS University of Technology, Gothenburg, SwedenDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering

Professor/Associate professor in Formal Methods

The Department has 76 faculty members and enrols about 70 PhD students from more than 30 countries. The research spans the whole spectrum, from theoretical underpinnings to applied systems development. There is extensive national and international collaboration with academia and industry all around the world.

The Division of Software Technology has around 15 faculty members and 25 postdocs and PhD students. We conduct successful research in functional programming, automatic theorem-proving, hardware design and verification, property-based testing of software, language-based security, and software verification.

The scientific area of the new position is Formal Methods, interpreted broadly so as to include at least

- formal specification, development and verification of software,- automatic theorem-proving and model-checking,- lightweight formal methods, including testing,- program semantics and analysis.

Critical key sectors of modern economies depend highly on Informationand Communication Technologies (ICT). Disruption, disturbance or lossof information flowing through and processed by ICT infrastructurescan, as well as incidents in the sector infrastructure itself, lead tovarious damages such as high economical, material, or ecologicalimpact, loss of vital societal functions and social well-being ofpeople, and in the most unfortunate cases loss of human lives. As aconsequence the security, reliability and resilience of theseinfrastructures are critical for the society. The topic of Critical(Information) Infrastructure Protection (C(I)IP) is therefore a majorobjective for governments, companies and the research community of themajor industrial countries worldwide.

The CRITIS'12 conference is the well-established continuation of theseries and aims to explore the new challenges posed by C(I)IP bringingtogether researchers and professionals from academia, industry andgovernmental agencies interested in all different aspects of C(I)IP.Especially promoted by CRITIS'12 are multi-disciplinary approacheswithin the scientific communities at national, European and globallevel.

Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submittingresearch papers, work-in-progress reports, R&D project results,surveying works and industrial experiences describing significantadvances in C(I)IP. Topics of interest include, but are not limitedto:

All submissions will be subjected to a thorough blind review by atleast three reviewers. Papers should be no longer than 12 pages inEnglish, including bibliography and well-marked appendices. As inprevious years, it is planned that post-proceedings are published bySpringer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.Pre-proceedings will appear at the time of the conference. At leastone author of each accepted paper is required to register with theConference and present the paper. Paper submission will be done viaEasyChair. To submit a paper, please follow the specific instructionsposted on the Conference website(http://critis12.hig.no/call-for-papers/). The submitted paper (in PDFor PostScript format) should follow the respective template offered bySpringer (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The papermust start with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords.However, the submission should be anonymised and all author names,affiliations, acknowledgements, and obvious traceable referencesshould be eliminated.Extended and fully revised versions of the best papers accepted forCRITIS'12, after a further peer-reviewed process, will be published ina special issue of the International Journal of CriticalInfrastructures (Inderscience).

Important Dates

Deadline for submission of papers: May 15, 2012Notification to authors: June 30, 2012Camera-ready papers: August 15, 2012

The First RECOMB Satellite Conference on Open Problems in Algorithmic Biology (RECOMB-AB) will be held August 27-29, 2012 in St. Petersburg, Russia. This workshop brings together leading researchers in the mathematical, computational, and life sciences to discuss current challenges in computational biology, with an emphasis on open algorithmic problems. The program will consist of invited speakers, contributed speakers, posters, and discussion panels.

Saint Petersburg (formerly known as Leningrad) is Russia's second largest city. The large historic center of Saint Petersburg, threaded with canals dotted with baroque bridges, is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Its Hermitage Museum, housed in the Winter Palace (formerly called the Palace of the Russian Tsars), is one of the world's greatest collections of art.

RECOMB-AB aims to discuss recent advances and present open algorithmic problems in different areas of life sciences. Today, life sciences are in the midst of a major paradigm shift driven by computational sciences. RECOMB-AB emphasizes that this is a two-way street: while life sciences have greatly benefited from new computational ideas, they also are a major source of new open problems and inspiration for computational sciences. RECOMB-AB brings together leading researchers in the mathematical, computational, and life sciences to discuss interesting, challenging, and well-formulated open problems in algorithmic biology.

Many areas of computational sciences started as an attempt to solve applied problems and later became more theoretically-oriented. These theoretical aspects may be very valuable even if they stray away from the applied problems that originally motivated them. Thus, RECOMB-AB is interested in a wide range of well-formulated open problems. Some of them may be rather theoretical and have limited biological application. The solutions of others might provide valuable tools for biologists or might lead to new biological discoveries. This blend of theoretical and applied problems is a fascinating feature of algorithmic biology.

The discussion panels at RECOMB-AB will also address the worrisome proliferation of ill-formulated computational problems in bioinformatics. While some biological problems can be translated into well-formulated computational problems, others defy all attempts to bridge biology and computing. This may result in computational biology papers that lack a formulation of a computational problem they are trying to solve. While some such papers may represent valuable biological contributions (despite lacking a well-defined computational problem), others may represent computational "pseudoscience." RECOMB-AB will address the difficult question of how to evaluate computational papers that lack a computational problem formulation.

Open problems should address a problem of interest in Biology, whose solution may depend on development of new ideas in Computing, or problems of interest in Computing that were initially motivated by Biology. Open problems may be completely new; they may be problems that were studied in the past but without a precise formulation as an algorithmic problem; or they may be new and improved self-contained formulations of previously published problems.

Selected speakers (invited and contributed) will be invited to participate in an article on Open Problems in Algorithmic Biology, to be published in the Journal of Computational Biology in Fall 2012. This multi-author article will be a compilation of the problems posed in the abstracts and invited talks.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:

RECOMB-AB will have a somewhat unusual format. In addition to research abstracts, RECOMB-AB will showcase open problems in algorithmic biology. We invite submissions in two categories: Algorithmic Biology Open Problems, and Algorithmic Biology Research Abstracts. Submissions should be submitted through the links provided on the RECOMB-AB website and must be received by April 27, 2012.

Algorithmic Biology Open Problems. Each submission should cover a single well-formulated open problem in algorithmic biology. Each submission should be self-contained and should start from a statement of biological problem and end with a well-formulated computational problem addressing the biological problem. Authors should include the motivation for studying the problem and any known partial or conjectured solutions of the problem. A single submission may include multiple computational problems motivated by the same biological problem. Authors of selected papers will be invited to present their problem at RECOMB-AB either as a talk or as a poster. Selected authors will also be invited to participate in a multi-author article on Open Problems in Algorithmic Biology, to be published in the Journal of Computational Biology.

Algorithmic Biology Research Abstracts. Unpublished work and recently published work will both be considered. If the work is published, please include it in the references. Authors of selected papers will be invited to present their paper at RECOMB-AB either as a talk or as a poster. Abstracts will be distributed to conference participants, but there is no formal publication through the conference.

PREPARATION OF ABSTRACTS:

Abstracts should be submitted via the conference website in PDF format. All abstracts should be in English. Abstracts consist of up to two pages of text (plus cover page, references, figures, and tables, which do not count towards the two pages). Please see the conference website for further details.

KEY DATES:

Abstract submission deadline Friday April 27, 2012 Notification of acceptance Friday May 18, 2012 Request for visa Friday May 25, 2012 Final abstract due Friday June 15, 2012 Registration period To be announced Conference August 27-29, 2012 (arrival on August 26)

Researchers are encouraged to submit their work electronically. All paperswill be fully refereed by a minimum of two specialized referees. Beforefinal acceptance, all referees comments must be considered.

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The Sixth International conference on Fun with Algorithms(FUN 2012) is dedicated to the use, design, and analysisof algorithms and data structures, focusing on resultsthat provide amusing, witty but nonetheless original andscientifically profound contributions to the area. Theprevious FUNs were held in Elba Island, in Castiglioncello,Tuscany, Italy, and in Ischia Island, Italy.

The program will consist of 34 contributed talks as wellas three PLENARY SPEAKERS:

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Statistical Mechanics of Unsatisfiability and Glasses,Mariehamn 23-26 May 2012

Nordita (the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, www.nordita.org)and the Aalto University Science Institute (asci.aalto.fi), co-organisea workshop on "Statistical Mechanics of Unsatisfiability and Glasses" inMariehamn, Åland Islands, on 23-26 May 2012. The list of invitedspeakers includes some of the internationally most prominent scientistsworking in this exciting area interfacing deep research issues incomputer science and statistical mechanics.

Attendance at the workshop is free, however all participants need toarrange for their travel to either Mariehamn or Stockholm. (The workshopbegins on the ferry trip rom Stockholm to Mariehamn).

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The Department of Industrial Management (http://ir18.ugent.be) of theFaculty of Engineering and Architecture of Ghent University (Belgium) has avacancy for a full time professor in the rank of lecturer in the field ofstudy: "design and simulation of industrial engineering systems".

The application deadline is March 26, 2012.----------Job description-----One full-time professor position, with a focus on scientific research and astarting rank of lecturer (assistant professor), will be available via theTenure Track system with effect from October 1, 2012. This is initially a five-year appointment in a Tenure Track system focusingprimarily on research. If the university board positively evaluates theperformance of the person involved, the position may lead to a permanentposition as senior lecturer (associate professor).

The Department wishes to strengthen its expertise in simulation and designof industrial engineering systems. The candidate should have a provenresearch record, based on peer-reviewed international publications, in atleast one of these domains, simulation or design of industrial systems, andbe willing to perform research in this area. Representative publications ofthe department can be found through the UGent library system(http://biblio.ugent.be).

Teaching is an important element of the workload given the limited size ofthe staff of the department. The courses are allocated among the academicstaff based on background and interests. Because the department undergoesconsiderable changes in its academic staff between 2010 and 2012, theallocated teaching subjects can change after 2012. Initial teaching loadwill be two 6 credit courses at master level (60 teaching hours persemester).

----------Profile-----Candidates are expected to:- Hold a PhD degree with doctoral thesis or a degree recognized asequivalent. The PhD or equivalent should have been obtained after October 1,2005, but not later than October 1, 2010;- Have carried out excellent research in the academic field mentioned above,proven by, among other things, recent outstanding publications in nationaland international peer reviewed journals and/or books;- Have experience in supervising research and/or coaching Ph.D. students;- Possess the necessary didactic, organizational and communication skillsfor teaching at university level;- International research experience will be an advantage, in particularscientific work in research institutions abroad.No prior knowledge of Dutch is necessary at the time of appointment, butcandidates will be expected to acquire a working knowledge of the languagewithin three years. The official language at Ghent University is Dutch.

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INESC PORTO is accepting applications to award one scientific researchgrant to work in the project "New models for enhancing the kidneytransplantation process" in the following work area: Optimization. Weare looking for candidates holding a PhD in Computer Engineering,Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Operational Research orsimilar. Candidates must have knowledge of Combinatorial Optimization,experience in programming, and proficiency in English. Preference willbe given to candidates with advanced knowledge in CombinatorialOptimization and strong experience in programming.

Project Summary:

This project concerns research and development of decision-supporttools to facilitate and improve the kidney transplantation processinvolving living kidney donors. It promotes an important project ofpublic healthcare planning and management for developing advancedmodels and solution techniques to "optimally" match up kidney patientswith donors.

New optimization models will be developed based on thorough analysisof several significant issues involving the kidney transplantationprocess that were not addressed before. In particular, criticalaspects such as concurrence or inconsistency of the regulatorypolicies with final decisions of physicians will be captured; guidancefrom national initiatives will be incorporated to keep the modelsrealistic and purposeful.

For efficiently solving the models, innovative solution approacheswill be formulated to achieve beyond state-of-the-art results. Byintegrating new paradigms and methodologies, prototype software toolswill be designed, implemented and validated. Entire development workwill be done with close collaboration and guidance of Portuguesehealthcare organizations responsible for kidney transplantation(Central Hospitals and National Authority for Blood andTransplantation Services - ASST).

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Monday, February 27, 2012

Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, GraduateSchool of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan has one fullprofessor position starting from April 1st, 2012. Kyoto Universityis one of the top universities in Japan. Seehttp://www.cce.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index-e.html. This position belongs to the Computer Engineering Division. Thesuccessful candidate should have a Ph.D. degree in computer scienceor related areas, an outstanding record in his/her research in thefield of the core computer science/engineering, such as hardware,software and theory, and proper experiences in graduate and/orundergraduate education of those areas. Typical keywords for the research area we are interested in include, but not limited to, programming languages, programming language systems, parallel/distributed/cooperative processing, foundation of software science,operating systems, computer architectures, design and analysis ofalgorithms, computational complexity theory, etc. Applications should include(i) CV,(ii) publication list,(iii) summary of 3-5 major publications and copies of these papers,(iv) awards, academic activities, etc.,(v) names and mail addresses of two references, and(vi) self-evaluation of the ability of Japanese language if the native language of the applicant is not Japanese (course activities can be done in English, but the ability of Japanese may be considered in the selection process.)All documents should be submitted in PDF files to Prof. Naofumi Takagi(takagi@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp) by email. At the same time, hard-copies of allthe documents should be sent by postal mail to

Deadline for both email and postal mail submissions is May 11, 2012.Contact phone number is +81-75-753-5373 (Naofumi Takagi) and fax numberis +81-75-753-5986 (also Naofumi Takagi).

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Computability in Europe 2012: How the World Computes University of Cambridge Cambridge, 18-23 June 2012

CiE 2012 is one of a series of special events, running throughout the AlanTuring Year, celebrating Turing's unique impact on mathematics, computing,computer science, informatics, morphogenesis, artificial intelligence,philosophy and computational aspects of physics, biology, linguistics,economics and the wider scientific world.

CiE 2012 is planned to be an event worthy of the remarkable scientificcareer it commemorates, and will be the largest ever conference centred onthe Computability Theoretic legacy of Turing and his contemporaries.

Authors will be notified of acceptance, usually within two weeks ofsubmission.

All accepted papers become eligible for consideration for post-conferencejournals: COMPUTABILITY will consider journal versions of papers presentedat CiE conferences as a general rule; and there will be special issues of

Logical Methods in Computer Science (LMCS) and Annals of Pure and AppliedLogic (APAL).

We particularly welcome submissions in emergent areas, such asbioinformatics and natural computation, where they have a basic connectionwith computability.

CiE 2012 will have a special relationship to the scientific legacy of AlanTuring, reflected in the broad theme: How the World Computes, with all itsdifferent layers of meaning. Contributions which are directly related tothe visionary and seminal work of Turing will be particularly welcome.

* The Universal Turing Machine, and History of the ComputerChairs: Jack Copeland and John TuckerSpeakers so far: Steven Ericsson-Zenith, Ivor Grattan-Guinness, MarkPriestley, Robert I. Soare + Panel Discussion

Information of funding for students (including ASL grants) and theattendance of female researchers is at:

Computability in Europe 2012: How the World Computes University of Cambridge Cambridge, 18-23 June 2012

CiE 2012 is one of a series of special events, running throughout the AlanTuring Year, celebrating Turing's unique impact on mathematics, computing,computer science, informatics, morphogenesis, artificial intelligence,philosophy and computational aspects of physics, biology, linguistics,economics and the wider scientific world.

CiE 2012 is planned to be an event worthy of the remarkable scientificcareer it commemorates, and will be the largest ever conference centred onthe Computability Theoretic legacy of Turing and his contemporaries.

Authors will be notified of acceptance, usually within two weeks ofsubmission.

All accepted papers become eligible for consideration for post-conferencejournals: COMPUTABILITY will consider journal versions of papers presentedat CiE conferences as a general rule; and there will be special issues of

Logical Methods in Computer Science (LMCS) and Annals of Pure and AppliedLogic (APAL).

We particularly welcome submissions in emergent areas, such asbioinformatics and natural computation, where they have a basic connectionwith computability.

CiE 2012 will have a special relationship to the scientific legacy of AlanTuring, reflected in the broad theme: How the World Computes, with all itsdifferent layers of meaning. Contributions which are directly related tothe visionary and seminal work of Turing will be particularly welcome.

* The Universal Turing Machine, and History of the ComputerChairs: Jack Copeland and John TuckerSpeakers so far: Steven Ericsson-Zenith, Ivor Grattan-Guinness, MarkPriestley, Robert I. Soare + Panel Discussion

Information of funding for students (including ASL grants) and theattendance of female researchers is at:

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The Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic is seeking candidates for a 3-year postdoctoral position in the areas of structural graph theory and parameterizedalgorithms. The selected candidate will work under the supervision of Petr Hliněný.

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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS(Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this announcement)************************************************************************CTW 201211th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs & Combinatorial OptimizationUniBw Muenchen, Munich, May 29-31, 2012************************************************************************

The eleventh Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and CombinatorialOptimization 2012 welcomes contributions on theory and applications ofdiscrete algorithms, graphs and combinatorial structures in the widesense, discrete and continuous optimization, and Operations Research.

Following a well established tradition, the 11th edition of the workhopaims to disseminate scientific results, especially by young researchers,in a friendly and interactive atmosphere.

**************************************************************************Abstract submission:Authors wishing to submit a contribution, should prepare an extendedabstract of at most *4 pages* by March, 18, 2012 following the guidelines on the conference website.*************************************************************************

*************************************************************************Important dates:*Deadline for abstract submission: March 18, 2012;*Acceptance notice: April 2, 2012;*Deadline for early registration: April 23, 2012;*Conference: May 29-31, 2012.*************************************************************************

Participants of the workshop will have the opportunity to submit full-length papers to a special issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics and Central European Journal of Operations Research.

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A subset of poster session submissions will be selected ascandidates for best paper awards:

- The best paper award of 5,000 pounds- The best young researcher best paper award of 3,000 pounds- The second best paper award of 2,500 pounds - The second best young researcher best paper award of 1,500 pounds- Sixteen (16) awards of 500 pounds each

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INESC PORTO is accepting applications to award one scientific research grant to work in the project "New models for enhancing the kidney transplantation process" in the following work area: Optimization. We are looking for candidates holding a PhD in Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Operational Research or similar. Candidates must have knowledge of Combinatorial Optimization, experience in programming, and proficiency in English. Preference will be given to candidates with advanced knowledge in Combinatorial Optimization and strong experience in programming.

Project Summary:

This project concerns research and development of decision-support tools to facilitate and improve the kidney transplantation process involving living kidney donors. It promotes an important project of public healthcare planning and management for developing advanced models and solution techniques to “optimally” match up kidney patients with donors.

New optimization models will be developed based on thorough analysis of several significant issues involving the kidney transplantation process that were not addressed before. In particular, critical aspects such as concurrence or inconsistency of the regulatory policies with final decisions of physicians will be captured; guidance from national initiatives will be incorporated to keep the models realistic and purposeful.

For efficiently solving the models, innovative solution approaches will be formulated to achieve beyond state-of-the-art results. By integrating new paradigms and methodologies, prototype software tools will be designed, implemented and validated. Entire development work will be done with close collaboration and guidance of Portuguese healthcare organizations responsible for kidney transplantation (Central Hospitals and National Authority for Blood and Transplantation Services - ASST).

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Sunday, February 26, 2012

ISMP 2012 will take place in Berlin, Germany, August 19 - 24, 2012. ISMP is the world congress of mathematical optimization and is held every three years on behalf of the Mathematical Optimization Society.

Second Call for PRESENTATIONS and SESSION PROPOSALS

Presentations on all theoretical, computational and practical aspects of mathematical programming in one of the program clusters are welcome (see www.ismp2012.org/en/clusters-and-cluster-chairs ). Invited and contributed presentations will be organized in parallel sessions, each session consisting of three talks. Interested session organizers are invited to contact the cluster chairs of the cluster that fits their particular topic.

The deadline for submitting invited sessions has been extended to March 31, 2012. The deadline for submitting titles and abstracts of presentations is April 15, 2012. There is a one talk per speaker policy at ISMP, i.e., no participant will be able to register more than one presentation. Abstract submission and registration can be done online, via the conference webpage at www.ismp2012.org.

ISMP 2012 will take place in Berlin, Germany, August 19 - 24, 2012. ISMP is the world congress of mathematical optimization and is held every three years on behalf of the Mathematical Optimization Society.

Second Call for PRESENTATIONS and SESSION PROPOSALS

Presentations on all theoretical, computational and practical aspects of mathematical programming in one of the program clusters are welcome (see www.ismp2012.org/en/clusters-and-cluster-chairs ). Invited and contributed presentations will be organized in parallel sessions, each session consisting of three talks. Interested session organizers are invited to contact the cluster chairs of the cluster that fits their particular topic.

The deadline for submitting invited sessions has been extended to March 31, 2012. The deadline for submitting titles and abstracts of presentations is April 15, 2012. There is a one talk per speaker policy at ISMP, i.e., no participant will be able to register more than one presentation. Abstract submission and registration can be done online, via the conference webpage at www.ismp2012.org.